Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business.

The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way.

This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues,

challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of

the How of Business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of The How of Business.

This is Henry Lopez with you here today and my special

guest, Ty Crandall. Ty, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here.

Let me give you a bit of background on Ty and I'll have him add to this bio intro. Ty is an internationally

known speaker, an author, and a business credit expert, which is what we're going to focus on in

today's conversation. He is the CEO of Credit Suite, where he created and continues to grow

one of the biggest and most credible business coaching operations in the United States.

With 16 plus years of financial experience, Ty is a widely recognized as an authority in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair.

He's the author of two popular books, Perfect Credit and Business Credit Decoded.

He's often interviewed on radio and new shows and podcasts like mine, TV programs and magazines including entrepreneur, Inc. and Forbes.

He also has his own podcast, the Business Credit and Finance Show. We'll chat a little bit about that.

And Ty is an Air Force veteran and he lives in the St. Petersburg, Florida area. Is that correct? Yes. Yes, I do.

Very good. Well, that's a bit background on Ty. Ty. Once again, welcome to the show. And please add to that your background and what you're up to these days.

Well, I appreciate that. That's a pretty generous introduction. I think you hit the nail on the head. But so I'm pretty busy over here at credit suite. And what we do is really

work with companies to help them establish business credit, build their company credit profile

scores, and also help them with all aspects of obtaining business loans and credit lines to actually

get financing to start and grow. Great. And so if we go back in time, Air Force, did you enlist? Did you go to college first? Tell me a little bit about your early beginnings.

When I was in high school, I didn't think it made much sense for people to go right to college because I never really had enough life experience to have any idea what I would want to do for the rest of my life.

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